One obvious solution is to distribute a Kazaa Lite patcher that transforms
a Kazaa into Kazaa Lite prior to installation. Now there is no copyright violation.
Nobody is distributing even a patched version of Kazaa.
Except they didn't, they took the Kazaa package, removed and renamed some
files, modified others, and redistributed the result under a name that was
intentionally very similar. What else can you call this but crooked.
Redistributing modified versions of someone's non-OSS package...
Hmm. Maybe this could be something.
First, you take the Kazaa distribution file. Then you take the Kazaa-lite distribution
file, XOR it with the legit Kazaa distribution file.
Combine the resulting data into an utility program that takes the legit
Kazaa distribution file, XORs it with the data, thus producing the Kazaa-lite
file.
Let's call it LightenKZ.exe
[Kazaa] XOR [Kazaa-lite] = [LightenKZ.exe]
then
[Kazaa] XOR [LightenKZ.exe] = [Kazaa-lite]
Now, there is *NO* copyright infringement, as [LightenKZ.exe]
is NEITHER Kazaa nor Kazaa-lite.
When you've been raised reading belgo-french heavy-metal comics, and as you grow-up, see the same character take on adult stories (and I mean with explicit, graphic sex), it's no wonder that american comics don't look too exiting.
Tell me how an ISP can be 100% sure that the new user application they just received will not be used for spamming?
That's fundamentally what SPEWS is requiring of the ISPs.
They can't, and they don't have to.
You obviously don't understand how SPEWS work.
First of all, SPEWS is *** NOT *** a list of spammers. SPEWS is a list of spam-friendly ISPS. You don't get in SPEWS for spamming, you get there by ignoring spamming complaint and keeping the spammers on your network.
Here is the straight dope:
Spammer gets an ISP account
Spammer spams
Angry spammees bitches at ISP
ISP ignores complaints
Spammer spams a SPEWS spamtrap
ONLY THE SPAMMER'S IP gets blacklisted
Spammer keeps spamming.
SPEWS operatives bitches at ISP
ISP ignores complaints
SPEWS increses the netblock until the whole ISP gets blacklisted. Rinse, later and repeat.
And so on, until the ISP boots off the spammer. And when he does, within days, the blacklisting is gone.
If someone spams from an ISP's network, and that ISP yanks the spammer in a timely fashion, he'll NEVER get into SPEWS.
SPEWS is there to instill fear in the heart of spammer-friendly ISPs.
So that's what happenning to Joe Jared's Osirusoft black-hole list, and the SPEWS website...
I call to all arms-bearing full-bloodied americans to rush home, take their trusty shotguuns, and relentlessly hunt down spammers until the last one is gutted and stuffed and put on display in the Smithsonian!!!
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Driving is a privilege that is bestowed upon many people who are most unfit for it. The sheer number of deaths attributable to road accidents is a eloquent testimony to that fact.
People will routinely drive at dangerous rates of speed and will perform high-speed sudden manoeuvers that leave virtually no margin for error.
Such behaviour has to be eradicated.
The installation of constant-monitoring tele-downloadable event recorders is most certainly a nice step in this direction, the goal being to eliminate the bad drivers from the road.
* * *
Some years ago, in a project management class, the teacher's day job was project manager for a prestigious law enforcement agency. Our teams had to prepare a project description for law-enforcement purposes. My idea was to have such a system implemented.
Needless to say, it didn't fly high with my team-mates, but the professor's reaction was quite interesting:
As annoying as the bag checker is, (think Fry's) he doesn't come home with me.
Whenever I'm ask to check my bag, I make a big, loud fuss (to make sure other customers hear it well) about "so you assume that all your customers are going to steal from you? Then, I can assume that you're going to screw me. And if you don't trust me with my bag in your store, why would I entrust you with my bag??? Congrats, you just lost a suctomer". Then, of course, I walk-out. Just did it yesterday again. And, a month ago, a store I've been patronizing for 20 years stopped doing it after I did my little stunt.
It can be pretty effective; here, we have many street festivals where the organizers search bags to make sure that we don't bring our food/beer in order to sell us their overpriced shit. But there are often stores that sell the same thing in the festival area.
Well, last year, I managed to slip past security with my knapsack - I was heading to a convenience store to buy some water and snacks for a bus trip (the bus terminal is nearby) - and one of the goons started running after me and caught up with me when I entered the store and demanded that I show him my bag.
Of course, I told him to screw himself. He then summonned at least 10 other goons by radio and they ganged up on me, demanding to inspect my bag. I loudly refused, with lots of obscene profanity as I did my shoping (and taking my sweet fucking time). When I finally lined up (there was at least 15 people in line), they demanded that I pass in front of the line.
- No way, you fucking assholes, I'm gonna wait for my turn. So I waited 5 minutes with the 10 goons staring at me (and me having snide remarks once in a while). Then it was my turn, I paid for my stuff (water, a sandwich, a bag of chips and a chocolate bar) then left, and was escorted by the goon squad to the festival entrance.
Tis year, the same festival had the fence arranged so to let people access the convenience store without entering the festival site... No doubt my little shouting match had produced some results!!!
Subverting governments is a typically anglo-saxon way of doing "business". In the late 1700's, a britshit brewer named Molson moved into newly-conquered France, and upon seeing that the cider-drinking french natives were eschewing his beet, simply had the governor outlaw cider-making.
Being too stupid to adapt to the market by making cider, he had the market adapt to him.
200 years later, his beer still tastes like horse-piss.
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Oddly enough, there is no category for "tubgirl.com"...
Hmm. Maybe this could be something.
First, you take the Kazaa distribution file. Then you take the Kazaa-lite distribution file, XOR it with the legit Kazaa distribution file.
Combine the resulting data into an utility program that takes the legit Kazaa distribution file, XORs it with the data, thus producing the Kazaa-lite file.
Let's call it LightenKZ.exe
[ Kazaa ] XOR [ Kazaa-lite ] = [ LightenKZ.exe ]
then
[ Kazaa ] XOR [ LightenKZ.exe ] = [ Kazaa-lite ]
Now, there is *NO* copyright infringement, as [ LightenKZ.exe ] is NEITHER Kazaa nor Kazaa-lite .
in my signature... :)
When you've been raised reading belgo-french heavy-metal comics, and as you grow-up, see the same character take on adult stories (and I mean with explicit, graphic sex), it's no wonder that american comics don't look too exiting.
You obviously don't understand how SPEWS work.
First of all, SPEWS is *** NOT *** a list of spammers. SPEWS is a list of spam-friendly ISPS. You don't get in SPEWS for spamming, you get there by ignoring spamming complaint and keeping the spammers on your network.
Here is the straight dope:
- Spammer gets an ISP account
- Spammer spams
- Angry spammees bitches at ISP
- ISP ignores complaints
- Spammer spams a SPEWS spamtrap
- ONLY THE SPAMMER'S IP gets blacklisted
- Spammer keeps spamming.
- SPEWS operatives bitches at ISP
- ISP ignores complaints
- SPEWS increses the netblock until the whole ISP gets blacklisted. Rinse, later and repeat.
And so on, until the ISP boots off the spammer. And when he does, within days, the blacklisting is gone.If someone spams from an ISP's network, and that ISP yanks the spammer in a timely fashion, he'll NEVER get into SPEWS.
SPEWS is there to instill fear in the heart of spammer-friendly ISPs.
I call to all arms-bearing full-bloodied americans to rush home, take their trusty shotguuns, and relentlessly hunt down spammers until the last one is gutted and stuffed and put on display in the Smithsonian!!!
What part of NO don't you understand???
Yeah right. More like Microsoft, to fatten the bottom-line...
Mediaeval history can be useful for an editor of an history magazine, and pure mathematics will doubtlessly qualify you for teaching.
Whitelists are unworkable. How do you reach someone for the first time?
The non-communication only breeds rumours.
Sheeesh!
People will routinely drive at dangerous rates of speed and will perform high-speed sudden manoeuvers that leave virtually no margin for error.
Such behaviour has to be eradicated.
The installation of constant-monitoring tele-downloadable event recorders is most certainly a nice step in this direction, the goal being to eliminate the bad drivers from the road.
* * *
Some years ago, in a project management class, the teacher's day job was project manager for a prestigious law enforcement agency. Our teams had to prepare a project description for law-enforcement purposes. My idea was to have such a system implemented.
Needless to say, it didn't fly high with my team-mates, but the professor's reaction was quite interesting:
Well, it's about time!!!So, this means it will be able to see through those bikinis, eh?
I hear they gonna deep-fry it in Scotland.
...Titanic is unsinkable.
If supercomputers are already beowulf clusters of sort, I wonder what a beowulf cluster of those would be...
It can be pretty effective; here, we have many street festivals where the organizers search bags to make sure that we don't bring our food/beer in order to sell us their overpriced shit. But there are often stores that sell the same thing in the festival area.
Well, last year, I managed to slip past security with my knapsack - I was heading to a convenience store to buy some water and snacks for a bus trip (the bus terminal is nearby) - and one of the goons started running after me and caught up with me when I entered the store and demanded that I show him my bag.
Of course, I told him to screw himself. He then summonned at least 10 other goons by radio and they ganged up on me, demanding to inspect my bag. I loudly refused, with lots of obscene profanity as I did my shoping (and taking my sweet fucking time). When I finally lined up (there was at least 15 people in line), they demanded that I pass in front of the line.
- No way, you fucking assholes, I'm gonna wait for my turn. So I waited 5 minutes with the 10 goons staring at me (and me having snide remarks once in a while). Then it was my turn, I paid for my stuff (water, a sandwich, a bag of chips and a chocolate bar) then left, and was escorted by the goon squad to the festival entrance.
Tis year, the same festival had the fence arranged so to let people access the convenience store without entering the festival site... No doubt my little shouting match had produced some results!!!
Loudly protesting can be effective!
2 gouge consumers
3 coerce competitors
4 ???
5 coerce governments
6 PROFIT!!!!
Subverting governments is a typically anglo-saxon way of doing "business". In the late 1700's, a britshit brewer named Molson moved into newly-conquered France, and upon seeing that the cider-drinking french natives were eschewing his beet, simply had the governor outlaw cider-making.
Being too stupid to adapt to the market by making cider, he had the market adapt to him.
200 years later, his beer still tastes like horse-piss.
For those who'd like to see a beowulf cluster of those, just wait until next morning.